halfpenny

1 The interview with Mrs. Hamilton had cost him half-a-crown and his peace of mind: it had cost the driver one halfpenny for the early edition of the Star.

2 “Wherever there is a halfpenny sheet of paper, a pen and a few drops of ink, there are the materials for a petition,” wrote one Chartist.

3 It grieved him a little that for his two offices he had been obliged to pay and to borrow no larger a sum than 135 florins, 41 kreutzers and one halfpenny.

4 I've got fifty left of my own, and one always wins when one's down to nothing; but on no account are you to offer me a halfpenny from your money.

5 The pence he laid on the three-legged stool, by the side of the matches, the halfpenny he put for safety into his mouth.

6 "There's only tenpence halfpenny to take out," said Jasmine.

7 Full Moon did not carry a halfpenny of my money.

8 In nineteenth-century England, tailors would place old halfpennies in the pockets of a man’s new suit for good luck.

9 But having killed the halfpenny, why has the UK never done something about the penny?

10 What the sixpenny magazine is to the monthly press that the halfpenny newspaper is to the daily.

11 Davos stopped beneath the colonnade and traded a halfpenny for an apple.

12 Before everyone gets misty-eyed about the bronze halfpenny, it's worth remembering how annoying Britain's least loved coin, notorious for getting lost in trousers and furniture upholstery, was.

13 The Daily News, the Daily Telegraph, the halfpenny press, morning and evening as a special product of the age.

14 Turn up again like a bad halfpenny.

来得不是时候.

15 After that there wasn't a halfpenny left.

那以后,连半便士也不剩了。

16 How the deuce do you think I'm going to camp without a halfpenny?

17 "Sir, Some may dispute the 'rounding-up' or down, of the halfpenny coin, but let not its existence be imperilled. It is indispensable for levelling off pendulum clocks," countered Priscilla Glover in December.

18 But accounts at the Bank in the subsequent months did not make mention of the removal of the halfpenny as a reason.

19 “Your halfpenny or your hat” was an offensive cry, and, together with the scuffles with strayed revellers, left little peace to the guardians of the bridge.

20 Don't bother her with such halfpenny things.

不要用这种微不足道的事情来打扰她。

1 便宜的

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2 半便士

bawbee

3 半便士硬币

tiddler meck

4 半辨士

half tiddler

5 便宜

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6 微不足道的

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7 小钱

cash penny mag dime mite crumb razoo

8 微不足道

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9 微不足道的东西

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